Omission Neurosis
(To the Editor of The Times) Sir: If you will turn to the files of your great newspaper you will find that thahks to the fiat of the Government and their docile majority ten......
How To Make A Row
AFTERTHOUGHT This article has been contributed by a senior civil servant, who wishes to remain anony- mous. In 1751 Parliament omitted eleven days from the calendar without......
Sir: The Phenomenon Of Omission Neurosis And Its...
Feeling, Aorism, and Preterition, are of considerable significance as indicating displacement at a profound level in our society. Some of us have been working on this question......
The Parliamentary Under-secretary Of State For Time And...
Mr Hobgoblin, MP Dear Ted, 1 November 196- Anthony asked me to reply to the further letter from Mr Pixie which you sent him. I am sorry Mr Pixie should have misunder- stood......
Sir: Mt Pixie's Letter Is Indeed A Sad Commen- Tary
on official ineptitude. My representations to the Government for funds to make an extended study of the medical problems involved (to which I have myself 'devoted some......
Thank You For Sending Me The Enclosed Further Letter From
Mr Pixie. Dear Hobgoblin, 19 October 196- Mr Pixie argues that the omission of eleven days appears to diminish the life-span of an individual by that amount, and asks how one......
No. 539: The Winners
Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invited to compose an intelligible piece of prose around ten given words, taken from the .opening pass- ages of a well-known work of......
No. 541: Octet
COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the fol- lowing five pairs of words......
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